Obama Starts Balancing Act

Barack Obama, the president-elect, has selected Pastor Rick Warren of the Saddleback Church to say the invocation at his inauguration. This upset homosexuals, whose foremost spokesman is Barney Frank, a Massachusetts congressman. The gay supporters of Barack Obama have no objections to a pro-gay rights pastor, Rev. Joseph Lowery, whom Obama invited to give the benediction. Lowery is the one who shamelessly made political statements at a funeral ceremony. Lowery directed attacks at president Bush who was then present with him at the funeral of Coretta Scott King in 2006.

The gay activists are upset that Obama invited Warren to the inauguration because Warren has made comparisons between homosexuality and incest. Barney Frank and the gay activists call Warren a bigot. If Warren is a bigot because of his views on homosexual behavior, then God must be the biggest bigot of all, for he instructed his people not to practice homosexuality or incest, but condemned both those behaviors.

"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination;..." (Leviticus 20:13)

"If a man lies with his daughter-in-law, ... they have committed perversion;" (Leviticus 20:11-13)

"'Cursed be anyone who lies with his sister, whether the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.' (Deuteronomy 27:22)